If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.